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Measuring the Flow of Time: The Works of James A. Ford, 1935-1941 (Classics Southeast Archaeology)

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A Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication

This number of Ford’s works makes a speciality of the development of ceramic chronology—a key tool in Americanist archaeology.

 

When James Ford started archaeological fieldwork in 1927, scholars divided time simply into prehistory and history. Though undoubtedly influenced by his colleagues, Ford devoted his life to establishing a chronology for prehistory based on ceramic types, and today he deserves credit for bringing chronological order to the vast archaeological record of the Mississippi Valley.

 

This book collects Ford’s seminal writings showing the importance of pottery styles in dating sites, population movements, and cultures. These works defined the development of ceramic chronology that culminated in the major volume Archaeological Survey in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley, 1940-1947, which Ford wrote with Philip Phillips and James B. Griffin. Along with Ford’s early writings, the collection includes articles written with Griffin and Gordon Willey, in addition to other key papers by Henry Collins and Fred Kniffen.

 

Editors Michael O’Brien and Lee Lyman have written an introduction that sets the stage for every chapter and provides a cohesive framework from which to examine Ford’s ideas. A foreword by Willey, himself a participant in this chronology development, looks back on the origin of that method. Measuring the Go with the flow of Time traces the development of culture history in American archaeology by providing a single reference for all of Ford’s writing on chronology. It chronicles the formation of one of the crucial important tools for understanding the prehistory of North The united states and shows its lasting relevance.

 

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